Support vector machines are both, unsupervised and supervised learning models for classification and regression analysis (supervised) and for anomaly detection (unsupervised). Given a set of training examples, each marked as belonging to one of categories, an SVM training algorithm builds a model that assigns new examples into one category. An SVM ...

Hierarchical clustering could be very useful because it is easy to see the optimal number of clusters in a dendrogram and because the dendrogram visualizes the clusters and the process of building of that clusters. However, hierarchical methods don’t scale well. Just imagine how cluttered a dendrogram would be if 10,000 cases would be shown on ...

Clustering is the process of grouping the data into classes or clusters so that objects within a cluster have high similarity in comparison to one another, but are very dissimilar to objects in other clusters. Dissimilarities are assessed based on the attribute values describing the objects.
There are a large number of clustering algorithms. The ...

This is the fifth, the final part of the fraud detection whitepaper. You can find the first part, the second part, the third part, and the fourth part in my previous blog posts about this topic. The Results In my original fraud detection whitepaper I wrote for SolidQ, I was advised by my friends to include some concrete and simple numbers to ...

This is the fourth part of the fraud detection whitepaper. You can find the first part, the second part, and the third part in my previous blog posts about this topic. Data Mining Models We create multiple mining models by using different algorithms, different input data sets, and different algorithm parameters. Then we evaluate the models in ...